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Revision as of 14:10, 13 July 2005 by DanielCD (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Georg Friedrich von Martens (1756-1821), German jurist and diplomatist, was born at Hamburg on the 22nd of February 1756. Educated at the universities of Göttingen, Regensburg and Vienna, he became professor of jurisprudence at Göttingen in 1783 and was ennobled in 1789. He was made a counsellor of state by the Elector of Hanover in 1808, and in 1810 was president of the financial section of the council of state of the Kingdom of Westphalia. In 1814 he was appointed privy cabinet-councillor (Geheimer Kabinetsrat) by the King of Hanover, and in 1816 went as representative of the king to the diet of the new German Confederation at Frankfurt, where he died on the 21st of February 1821.
Of his works the most important is the great collection of treaties Recuell des traites, &c., from 1761 onwards. Of this the first seven volumes were published at Göttingen (1791-1801), followed by four supplementary volumes partly edited by his nephew Karl von Martens. These were followed by Nouveau recueil, of treaties subsequent to 1808, in 16 vols. (Gottingen, 1817-1842).
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)